Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika
by R. Balasubramanian | 151,292 words | ISBN-10: 8185208115 | ISBN-13: 9788185208114
The English translation of Sureshvara’s Taittiriya Vartika, which is a commentary on Shankara’s Bhashya on the Taittiriya Upanishad. Taittiriya Vartika contains a further explanation of the words of Shankara-Acharya, the famous commentator who wrote many texts belonging to Advaita-Vedanta. Sureshvaracharya was his direct disciple and lived in the 9...
Verse 2.150
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
नालं क्षणमपि स्थातुं कार्यं तद्ध्रुवता कुतः ।
रज्ज्वेव भोग्यविद्योत्थं मूढदृष्टेर्ध्रुवायते ॥ १५० ॥
nālaṃ kṣaṇamapi sthātuṃ kāryaṃ taddhruvatā kutaḥ |
rajjveva bhogyavidyotthaṃ mūḍhadṛṣṭerdhruvāyate || 150 ||
English translation of verse 2.150:
What comes into being is not competent to stay even for a moment; then how is permanency for that? To the deluded vision it appears permanent like the serpent caused by avidyā out of the rope.
Notes:
Ākāśa and other elements which come into being from Brahman-Ātman are not permanent. They are no better than the illusory snake. Just as the snake seen in a rope due to avidyā appears to be permanent, so also the world which is projected by avidyā appears to be permanent to the ignorant.